Error analysis and measurement uncertainty for a fiber grating strain-temperature sensor

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6582-6593

  Tang, Jaw Luen ^a   Wang, Jian Neng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Error analysis; Fiber bragg grating; Measurement uncertainty; Sensor; Strain; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE LEVELS; COVERAGE FACTORS; DUAL-WAVELENGTH FIBER BRAGG GRATING; FIBER GRATING SENSOR; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; STRAIN-TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN MEASUREMENTS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBERS; SENSORS; STRAIN; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY;

TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77957102856     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100706582     Document Type: Article

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